Sep 21 2017
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The excellent puzzle game The Witness is out today for iPad and iPhone. Ten bucks gets you one of our favorite games of 2016, a game that’s best described as a Metroidvania where all the tools are in your head.
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Jan 17 2017
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A year ago, I played around six hours of the brilliant puzzle game The Witness. Then I stopped. Last weekend, I…
Sep 13 2016
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I’ve done some weird things whilst playing The Witness.
Sep 8 2016
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Sony’s announcement of HDR support for the original PS4 yesterday even surprised some developers. The team behind The Witness didn’t know it was coming, as they explain in a post about PS4 Pro upgrades coming to the game.
Aug 23 2016
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The Witness is coming to Xbox One, Jonathan Blow revealed to IGN earlier today. Blow and his team aim for a September 13th release date. An iOS version is also in development.
Jun 3 2016
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Someone made an NES version of The Witness, and it looks wonderful. Check it out right here. (You’ll need an emulator to play.)
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Feb 22 2016
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A full one hour and 30 seconds into this Giant Bomb video of Witness lead designer Jonathan Blow playing and talking…
Feb 16 2016
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I spent three hours staring at this puzzle, wondering if I was losing my mind.
Feb 15 2016
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Did you dig The Witness? Did you especially love the game’s setting, how the island looked like it was made from…
Feb 15 2016
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“This piece of the game is supposed to be difficult,” the game designer Jonathan Blow recently said to me as we…
Feb 12 2016
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The Witness is not like other games, so it stands to reason that a Witness speedrun would not be like other…
Feb 9 2016
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Do you see this? This is what madness looks like. Thank you, The Witness, for driving me truly insane.
Feb 4 2016
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The Witness is a very good puzzle game. So good that folks just can’t get its puzzles out of their head. At the…
Feb 3 2016
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The Witness has been illegally downloaded by thousands of people since it was released last month, but did you know…
Jan 28 2016
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The Witness was in development for a long time. You might think that part of the reason things took so long was that…
Jan 27 2016
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I’d rather not spoil anything. I’d rather you figure out everything in The Witness yourself. But if you need some…
Jan 27 2016
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A small number of puzzles in The Witness will be difficult or impossible for some color-blind and hearing-impaired…
Jan 25 2016
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While playing The Witness for this review, I wrote an email to its lead creator, Jonathan Blow. It was a moment of…
Jan 21 2016
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Jan 19 2016
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Jonathan Blow’s next puzzle game, The Witness, arrives January 26, and he’s announced it’ll cost you $40 on PS4 and PC. While a game’s pricing is not usually noteworthy—and Blow has been raising expectations on The Witness for a while now—I suspect this may come as a surprise for some people. Heads up!